The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America
This essay is an attempt to set forth more clearly than has hitherto been done the effect which the Negro has had upon American life. Its thesis is that despite slavery, war and caste, and despite our present Negro problem, the American Negro is and has been a distinct asset to this country and has brought a contribution without which America could not have been; and that perhaps the essence of our so-called Negro problem is the failure to recognize this fact and to continue to act as though the Negro was what we once imagined and wanted to imagine him—a representative of a subhuman species fitted only for subordination. (by the author)
Genre(s): History
Language: English
Keyword(s): history (882), black history (26), contributions (1)
| Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play 00 | Forward and Prescript | Jim Locke |
00:49:46 |
| Play 01 | The Black Explorers | Jim Locke |
00:20:25 |
| Play 02 | Black Labor | Jim Locke |
00:29:31 |
| Play 03 | Black Soldiers | Jim Locke |
01:03:29 |
| Play 04 | The Emancipation of Democracy | Jim Locke |
00:58:47 |
| Play 05 | The Reconstruction of Freedom | Jim Locke |
00:45:18 |
| Play 06 | The Reconstruction of Freedom, Continued | Jim Locke |
00:51:23 |
| Play 07 | The Freedom of Womanhood | Jim Locke |
00:18:45 |
| Play 08 | The American Folk Song | Jim Locke |
00:17:02 |
| Play 09 | Negro Art and Literature | Jim Locke |
00:40:54 |
| Play 10 | The Gift of the Spirit and Postscript | Jim Locke |
00:26:48 |